Alfred Espinas
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Alfred Victor Espinas (23 May 1844 – 24 February 1922) was a French thinker noted for having been an influence on
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of Comte and Spencer. Although initially an adherent of
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, he later became a committed realist. He died in
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Works

* ''Des sociétés animales'' (1877) * ''Les origines de la technologie'' (1897) * ''La philosophie sociale du XVIIIe siècle et la Révolution'' (1898) * ''Descartes et la morale: Études sur l'histoire de la philosophie de l'action'' (1925)


References

*Jean Ostrowski, ''Alfred Espinas, précurseur de la praxéologie: Ses antécédents et ses successeurs'', Librairie Générale de Droit et de Jurisprudence, Paris, 1973


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French philosophers French sociologists 1844 births 1922 deaths French male non-fiction writers Members of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques English–French translators École Normale Supérieure alumni People from Yonne {{France-sociologist-stub